How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bots
Dick and Paul dig into why the "Terminator" version of AI risk is the wrong one to worry about, using the actual data: a farming AI study where removing one moral guardrail led autonomous tractors to drive over animals in 84% of encounters to save fuel (while carefully avoiding rocks, which could damage the equipment).
They break down why stacking multiple low-probability failure modes — 19 different ways AI could go wrong, each individually unlikely — adds up to a coin flip, walk through the Challenger disaster's "normalization of deviance" as the right historical analogy, and call out the…
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